Your article in Thursday's (July 2) paper refers to two copper wire thieves as "codgers" because they are both in their 60s.
There are many of us who are well past that age and your inference is therefore that we are all old codgers.
A quick check of the word 'codger' defines it as follows: character, crank, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, flake, fruitcake, head case, kook, nut, nutcase, nutter, oddball, screwball, weirdo, zany, eccentric and grotesque.
Since you always seem to go overboard in your efforts to be politically correct, one has to assume that you consider codger as a proper description for anyone who is in their 60s or over and I am wondering which of these adjectives, in your opinion, best describes us.
Wally Neufeld
Prince George
(Editor's Note: The Oxford Canadian Dictionary defines a codger as "a person, esp. an old or strange one.")
